Google was down for a few minutes on Friday, 16th August 2013. Analytics firm GoSquared says it noticed a 40% drop in the number of global page views per minute around the time.
“Page views spiked shortly afterwards, as users managed to get to their destination, ” says GoSquared engineer Simon Tabor.
The downtime is believed to have cost Google an estimated $500,000 in revenues.
[Image courtesy: GoSquared]